Key to days past

6/15/15

In the past, I used to get very attached to certain items. The necklace I'm wearing in today's outfit is in item that I had liked enough to choose as my everyday necklace a few years ago. That was a very weird moment in my life, I admit. This little key (actually a key to my Mother's jewellery box) is a marker of that time in my mind. I put it on when a certain phase started and took it off when it ended. For years it lay unused in my own jewellery box even though my Mum complained that I should give it back. Even with all the negative associations, I still liked the simple shape of the key as a pendant and somehow its meaning was still strong with me. It was a magical item of sorts. One that could open a door that I'd closed and didn't want to open anymore.

I didn't really want to wear it until the day we took those photos. That morning, when I was looking through my necklaces to find one that would fit the outfit, I found this little key again. It felt like a piece of metal that it is and I could see it simply as a pretty ornament. I guess some phases take a very, very long time to truly pass and it takes equally long time for our psyche to fully heal.

What a touching background such a little pendant can have. I know what you mean, I kept some things that I connected to more or less good times in my past and it was a good sign to realize that at some point this connection was lost and they became "things" again. Some I still keep, some I parted with. And isn't it interesting that you never know what small meaningless item will become so important for this time period afterwards?love, ette